{"id":824,"date":"2007-01-25T22:40:28","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T22:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=824"},"modified":"2007-01-25T22:40:28","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T22:40:28","slug":"the_best_of_the_week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/01\/25\/the_best_of_the_week\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have heard, the Oscar nominations for 2006 were announced this week. I have little to say about them because, to be honest, I&#8217;ve only seen one of the movies that turns up in any of the major categories, Martin Scorsese&#8217;s <i>The Departed<\/i>. (For the record, I thought it was a good movie, driven by strong performances from Leo DiCaprio and Matt Damon, but not an exceptional movie. It&#8217;s really starting to look like <i>Goodfellas<\/i> was Scorsese&#8217;s masterpiece and he&#8217;ll never again achieve quite that same level of perfection.)<\/p>\n<p>However, I thought maybe I could contribute to award season with a couple honors of my own invention, gleaned from this week&#8217;s online activities. Here we go:<\/p>\n<p><b>Best Subject Line on an Unsolicited &#8220;Spam&#8221; E-Mail:<\/b> &#8220;Mean-spirited Gonad,&#8221; received 1\/25\/06.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t want to run into one of those in a dark alley, that&#8217;s for sure!<\/p>\n<p><b>Best Title on a Blog Entry Written by Someone Else:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/cars\/2007\/01\/bush_to_seek_ga.html\">Bush to Seek Gas Relief<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you just rolled your eyes, follow that link, pay attention to the photo that accompanies the blog entry, and then tell me that the scatological reading of the title is a coincidence.<\/p>\n<p>That is all. Actually, it&#8217;s probably too much. But hey it&#8217;s late and I&#8217;m feeling a little punchy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have heard, the Oscar nominations for 2006 were announced this week. I have little to say about them because, to be honest, I&#8217;ve only seen one of the movies that turns up in any of the major categories, Martin Scorsese&#8217;s The Departed. (For the record, I thought it was a good movie, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}